For anyone still suffering from this problem, I found a fix:

For macbook pros, make sure any cds are already removed from the optical drive, then hold down CMD+EJECT+qvctyenniyp, then tap F8 repeatedly until you hear a beep. After this, pressing Enter should produce tildes. To reset, hold down the same combination of keys, but backwards.

Hope this helps someone

Hey,
I don't know if I'm understanding you correctly, but it seems like you think that the [savepanel] object has something to do with the actual saving of the soundfile.

It doesn't it just generates a filename. It's the 'write' message being sent to the soundfiler which causes the soundfiler object to write to disk.

My suggestion is this:

[counter] (assuming this outputs a float when you bang the top)
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[makesymbol sound%s.wav]
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|write $1(
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[soundfiler]

The makesymbol will take whatever float you send it and output a symbol soundXXX.wav (the %s in the argument is replaced by whatever float you input to the object). The write $1 then prepends write to the filename, and sends the instruction to soundfiler to write the wav file.

Theo